COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

TOPIC: COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY

🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER

🔹Tomography: The word tomography is derived from the Greek word ‘tomos’ meaning ‘a technique of X-ray photography by which a single plane is photographed with the outline of structures in other plane eliminated’.

🔹History: Allen McLeod Cormack proposed the theoretical idea of CT in 1950s and the practical device was developed in the late 1960s by Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield.